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Wringer: Definition and part of speech

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Wringer

  1. n. A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
  2. n. One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wring: Definition and part of speech

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Wring

  1. n. A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
  2. v. t. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
  3. v. t. Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
  4. v. t. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
  5. v. t. To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; — usually with out or form.
  6. v. t. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
  7. v. t. To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
  8. v. i. To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wringbolt: Definition and part of speech

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Wringbolt

  1. n. A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; — not to be confounded with ringbolt.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wriggle: Definition and part of speech

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Wriggle

  1. a. Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
  2. v. i. To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
  3. v. t. To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wright: Definition and part of speech

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Wright

  1. n. One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; — now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wrightine: Definition and part of speech

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Wrightine

  1. n. A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.